The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-26
HITTER AND THITHER.

| tary of state, announcing the fact that cholera
 has made it's appearance in Chili, where 1t is | raging with great violence In the dfstrict of l Aconcagua.
 At nationalist meeting at Easterly, County Sligo, Mir Sexton, in speech, said that the present government would speedily be over 1 thrown and home rule soon be granted to Ire land. Resolutions were adopted approving the l plan of campaign and the strong language l used by Messrs. Sexton, Crilly and Mcdonald with reference to the government and their | advisers
 1 The national convention of the American shipping and industrial league will assemble in Washington Tuesday. Delegates to the number Of POO, representing every state and territory in the union, are expected to be pres ent. An address of welcome will be delivered by District Commissioner Webb and the for
 maj proceedings will be opened by an address of encouragement from General Joseph Wheel
 CT Of Alabama. Wednesday evening there will be held public meeting, at which ad- dresses will be delivered by Senators Evarts, Eustis, Dolph, Voorhees, and others. The rent agitation in Ireland has reached SC rious proportions In Limerick the sheriffs dread to take part in evictions owing to the menaces of the tenants The latter are re- moving their stock and other belongings to prevent tneir seizure.
 A courier arrived at San Antonio Saturday from Kerr county, bringing the intelligence that Laurez Madeline had been found assas- mated in his camp in Kerr county It is thought he was murdered Thursday night.
 The motive for the crime was . great rnys- tery to the many employees of Madeline. The deceased owned half I dozen of the largest and finest ranches in Texas.
 There are nearly fourteen hundred veteran soldiers in the National home at Milwaukee, and three hundred more are expected on the completion of the barracks in course of con struction.
 At the door of residence in New Boston,
 Illinois, were found the corpses of James E Doughty and Miss Martha Benedict. Jealousy
 was no doubt the cause of the tragedy. The postoffice at Geneva, Switzerland, was wrecked by an explosion of petroleum A Boston syndicate has taken s1l, ,000 900 in per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington
 and Quincy road at 951x They are . first
 mortgage on nine hundred miles of new track. At Cedar Falls, Iowa, William Crosby killed his wife and himself They were married two years ago, and the husband received s40,00o from his fathers estate Just previous to the tragedy Crosby paid every debt due in the town, including the servant
 Samuel Dysart, the new president of the Illinois board of agriculture, says that organ ization favors an appropriation of s25, 900 to- and has appointed committee to urge its passage by the legislature.
 A body of unemployed worzmen at Norwich, England, after listening to harrangues by two socialists, commenced raid on the shops, which was quickly stopped by the police An attempt to reduce wages in the tobacco
 factory of F. Lorillard at Jersey City, caused a strike by thirty-ive hundred employees. contract 10 extend the Denver and Rio Grande road from Red Cliff to Glennwood Springs, by August 1, has been taken by James Carlise for $2 00o,000.
 syndicate of Amsterdam bankers has pur- chased nine hundred square miles of timber land in western Florida, on which to found . l colony Of Hollanders-
 l A lumber company at Ludngton, Michigan offers to deed to the United States a- strip of land for the construction of a harbor of refuge. The residents on Post street. between Lar kin and Polk streets, San Francisco, were l startled Thursday evening by the sound of . tremendous explosion. A dynamite cartridge had been placed on the track of the Larkin | street branch line of the Sutter street cable 1 road and had exploded under dummy 1 No 34. The dummy was completely wrecked and the windows of the car and of the houses | in the vicinity were demolished. Mir. Hilder- | brandt and bis wife and brother were sitting | in the dummy on the side where the explosion | took place. They were all thrown into the 1 street and Mrs. Hilderbrandt 1t is feared, was | seriously injured. It was miracle that there were no others injured, as several persons were on the dummy
 Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has been se-
 leeted by the republican members of the IllI- nois legislature as their candidate for senator. I A native of New York, he removed to Illinois | in 1888, and has resided in Chicago for nearly I forty years. During his wide experience in | political life he served two terms in congress. l Governor Rusl, of Wisconsin, in discussing the labor question, directs attention to the fact that in the great majority Of troubles the | rights and iuteresto of the whole people arc rudely affected, and they have the right to en- | force peace
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